Waiting for the Crime Wave
I just can't put it any other way:
What are these morons thinking?
How much pain and suffering and misery has the Bush administration visited upon our once proud and great country?
And how much more will they be allowed to get away with?
They have things so mucked up for the average American that the backlash is only waiting to move down from the horizon and begin rolling for their greedy necks.
They have created a pool of millions of angry people. Yes, they've done a fine job of manipulating your anger to this point. They've used the Australian Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel and the hate-filled and Republican-financed legions of Talk Radio hatchetmen to keep most of you in a tizzy and mad at the guy next to you, rather than at the people who are actually responsible for making this mess. That provides them with cover for the time being, allowing them to proceed with business as usual. But when does this anger take on a life of its own?
There are three million of you who have been summarily thrown out of work over the last three years since Bush took power. A noble sacrifice on your part, in order to salvage the investment income of a Rockefeller heir or a few perks for a number of CEOs.
There are those of you who are part of that unemployment number who have fully gone through your unemployment benefits, and who have given up and stopped looking, living on more credit debt, loans, depletion of your retirement benefits and help from your families.
There are actually those of you who are the unfortunate wretches who have won the musical chairs prize: You've got a job! And you're now saddled with a demeaning, stress-filled job that is boring, soul-starving and aimed merely at providing some useless service or product to people who don't need it and certainly can't afford it—since they're out of work, most likely. Of course, disgruntled customers and clients curse you out all day long; the managers look at you like vermin, tell you to do more and work longer hours because you're damned lucky to have a job, then turn down your many vacation requests and tell you there are no raises again this year. Remember: This is what they're referring to when you see stories about "productivity gains": more work for you. The odd part? You STILL don't have any money!
The Bush administration happily points to woeful, flat economic data, and bellows that the sky is rising. To give you some perspective to any of these useless economic twaddle stories—floated by the administration in order to have you believe things are supposedly getting better—this administration oversaw the elimination of 93,750 jobs EVERY MONTH for the 32 months since the Bushmen took over. Again, if they were able to somehow reverse the process and replace or create 93,750 jobs EVERY MONTH, it would take them until 2006 just to return to where they were at Bush's Inaugural. According to Paul Krugman in The New York Times, it would take an ongoing recovery of over 3.5% - 4.0% over the next year to come anywhere close to creating that kind of reconstruction of the workforce.
But, those jobs are never coming back. Period. Never. Most of them have been Nafta'd to China and anyplace al Queda has a foothold. American business interests and al Queda are oddly identical—both are interested in finding the poorest peoples they can each exploit. Same guys; just different tailors.
During the '90s, both the economy and its job creation, and the access to wealth spun out of Republican hands. But, they've made great strides in reining in both control of the Internet, and the overall economy. From now on, there'll be no more of this entrepreneurial, "New Economy" riff-raff raising false hopes among the populace. Good solid, white businessmen can return to making the important deals that matter, and everyone else can return to being happy over what they are given.
But at what point do the American people just oversaturate with the greed of others while they scrounge for scraps in the richest country in the world before they turn to crime?
When will it begin when no one with an income over six figures is safe in America? When do Americans realize enough is enough and jump into action, realizing it IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.
When do little old ladies start carjacking SUVs? When do the overcharged fans attack baseball players who don't run out ground balls on their way to their limos or new Rolls Royce?
When will CEOs be forced into time-shares of both their primary AND summer homes—at gunpoint?
Results were just released this week that showed that, in 1991, 21% of the American population had been convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail time. That's a horrifying statistic.
But what's worse, even though they were the days of Daddy Bush's solo White House tour, those were relatively good days—with more jobs than now, and money to be had.
What will the 2004 jail numbers reach?
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